There's nothing that a hot pot can't solve, and if it doesn't work, eat another one! Hot pot is a favorite food for most people, and this way of cooking has a long history. According to research, there was a hot pot in the Warring States period. Did you get startled?
The hot pot in the Warring States period is a copper pot, square, with a partition in the middle, which divides the pot into two parts, one large and one small, which should be the prototype of the Mandarin duck pot. At first, this was not the case, at first people used clay pots as pots, and later "Ding" became hot pot pots. During sacrifices or celebrations, it is necessary to "strike the bell and eat the top". People gather around the Ding, throw all kinds of meat into the Ding, blanch the food with boiling soup, and when the ingredients meet the boiling water, they make a "grunting" sound, so the original hot pot is also called "antique soup". It's actually more like broth.
In the Eastern Han Dynasty, there were copper pots, and the unearthed pots and pans were called "wok buckets" - it sounded very different from hot pot, but it was the hot pot of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, hot pot was popular in the north, when there was an enhanced version of the Mandarin duck pot, five cooked kettles, as the name suggests, five ingredients cooked together, the old ancestor of the nine palace grid has wood? To say that the ancients played, we really only have the share of looking forward to sighing, and now the ancestors play the rest.
Time came to the Song Dynasty, this way of eating has become very common. It is said that in the later years of the Qianlong Emperor, the Qianlong Emperor put on a big "Feast of a Thousand Sorrows" in the palace, with a total of more than 1,550 hot pots, and more than 5,000 invited tasters.
So what do you eat at the Feast of a Thousand Sorrows? The banquet is divided into two levels: first-class tables and second-class tables. First-class feasts are arranged in the hall and on both sides of the porch. The maharajah and the ministers of the first and second grades, as well as the envoys of the country, feasted at the first-class banquet table. Each table of the first-class banquet is equipped with 2 hot pots, 1 lamb slice, 1 plate of venison with deer tail, 1 plate of lamb skewer, 4 bowls of meat dishes, 1 plate of steamed shouyi, 1 plate of stove food shouyi, 2 small dishes of snail box, and 2 ebony tendons. In addition, shredded pork is blanched.
The second-class banquet is arranged below the danqi. Three Jiupin officials, Mongolian Taiji, Ding Dai, Ling, militia, etc. retired at the second-class banquet table. Each table of the second-class banquet is decorated with two hot pots (made of copper): one pork slice, one lamb slice, one plate of lamb stew, one plate of roasted roe deer meat, one plate of steamed shouyi, one plate of stove food shouyi, two small dishes in the snail box, and two ebony tendons. Shredded pork is also available.
Is it hearty to eat? Can not just eat ah, but also have a drink ah, then there was no Coke Sprite, then the drink health without additives, the feast drink of the Thousand Sorrows Banquet is one of the top ten famous teas in China Junshan silver needle, produced from The Junshan in Yueyang Dongting Lake in Hunan Province, the shape is as thin as a needle name. This Junshan silver needle is a very delicious tea today.
After eating and souvenirs, qianlong such a person with noodles, how can the old people return empty-handed, taking the third feast of qianlong in the fiftieth year as an example, the silver pension cards rewarded to the old people who participated in the banquet ranged from twelve to thirty-two, and the canes distributed to the elderly from seventy to ninety years old had three thousand. There is silver and crutches, after eating a round stomach, holding a silver crutch, this little day is really moist!
The hot pot of the Qing Dynasty was already very rich in taste, and the "wild game hot pot" was very exquisite, and a large pot was served with twelve dishes: venison slices, pheasant slices, wild boar meat, wild duck breast, squid roll, fresh fish meat, flying dragon breast, roe deer ridge, thorn dragon tooth, large leaf parsley, eleutheroccus, and fresh bean sprouts. There are meat and vegetarian, it looks very delicious, this kind of meat and vegetarian collocation in the Qing Palace imperial dining archives are more recorded, raw meat hot pot, mutton hot pot, chrysanthemum hot pot are often appeared on the hot pot menu.
This is the hot pot up and down five thousand years, love to eat people, luck will not be too bad, said so much, not about a hot pot is unbearable, go, eat hot pot to go!